Center for Character and Social Responsibility is a resource for administrators, teachers and parents as seeking to fulfill their responsibilities as moral educators. The Center publishes books on character education topics and a quarterly newsletter, Character.

The National Character Education Center (NCEC) is a global leader in providing educators with numerous options in Value Based Education (VBE). Values in Action! is a nationally proven award winning Character Development Program used in over 25,000 schools. The Values in Action! Program provides numerous lessons that lead to a Value Driven life. The Code for the Road Blog as well as the free online data base Solutions And Strategies newsletter has hundreds of character development activities for K-12 classrooms. Gene Bedley, Founder and Executive Director, is also the National Development Director for the Rachel's Challenge Organization that offers a number of school programs in the area of Social-Emotional Learning (SEL). Rachel's Challenge programs have an emphasis on changing the hearts of kids by starting a chain reaction of kindness! NCEC in partnership with Rachel's Challenge is now offering an accredited Graduate Professional Development online course taught by Gene Bedley (three Graduate Professional Development units from Brandman University): "Value Driven-The Core Ethical Values that Define and Ignite You!"

DonorsChoose.org is a nonprofit that connects public school teachers with people who want to support classroom projects. Propose a funding project for your classroom on the website and recruit passionate donors from across the country to contribute.

K-12jobs.com posts job opportunities for teachers and school administrators at kindergarten, elementary schools, junior high schools, high schools and vocation schools. It also provides resources on job fairs, certification, salaries, a news group forum, and other educational links.

TopSchoolJobs.org, Education Week's career community, provides career resources to K-12 educators and administrators to help them explore their career potential, and to connecting K-12 recruiters with the most highly-qualified candidates globally. Reaching over 100,000 engaged readers each week in print and over 300,000 each month online, Education Week is the largest and most respected news and information source in the K-12 education community.

WantToTeach.com assists new teachers in locating their first or second K-12 teaching job throughout the country. Also designed to aid current teachers who desire to move within a state or move to another state, find a suitable position. It features administrative, support and non-instructional positions as well.

Founded in 1986 by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., the Core Knowledge Foundation conducts research on curricula, develops books and materials for parents and teachers, offers workshops for teachers, and serves as the hub of a growing network of Core Knowledge schools.

LessonPlansPage.com contains more than 2,500 free lesson plans that are available by grade level and subject. The website is owned and operated by EdScope, L.L.C., and is recommended by the U.S. Department of Education.

National Association for Beginning Teachers (NABT) is dedicated to the future and preservation of quality educators. NABT recognizes the potential challenges to beginning teachers and seeks to encourage their inherent enthusiasm by providing community forums, mentoring opportunities, and the latest educational tools.

National Association of Special Education Teachers (NASET) is a national professional association dedicated to special education teachers, professors who teach future special education teachers, students who are working towards their teaching certification in special education, and inclusion classroom teachers working with children with special needs. NASET provides practical information, useful resources, member benefits and an extensive special education database.

Resources for Schools and Indispensable Educators (RISE) seeks to make teaching in a low-income community more sustainable for a greater number of teachers. RISE membership offers teachers who are bolstering student achievement in low-income communities an opportunity to network with fellow teachers, financial resources, and career opportunities.

Student Paths is a free, nationally recognized showcase program designed to help students with the transition from high school to their future. Founded in 1997 by a college student, Student Paths takes a been-there-recently approach, making it fun, interesting and relevant for high school students. The Student Paths program includes a classroom publication along with a corresponding Lesson Plan Guide. Numerous resources and worksheets are also available.

e-Literacy is a user friendly, comprehensive teacher professional development program, designed to improve and encourage teacher practice and to develop a classroom framework for teaching reading in grades K-3.

The American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence (ABCTE) is a non-profit organization, dedicated to recruiting, preparing, certifying and supporting dedicated professionals to improve student achievement through quality teaching. ABCTE offers an innovative, online teacher preparation and certification program for highly knowledgeable individuals who want to change careers and become teachers.

ABCTE has issued over 2,000 teaching certifications to date. The organization offers certification in ten subjects including the high-need areas of math, science and special education. The program is currently accepted by nine states for public schools: Florida, Idaho, Missouri, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Utah. Many charter schools and private schools in other parts of the country also accept ABCTE certification.

ABCTE has a YouTube channel, where ABCTE teachers talk about the program and share teaching success stories. The organization has also created www.CharterTeacher.com, an online resource for charter school teachers, administrators and those who aspire to teach in a charter school.

National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) is an independent, nonprofit, nonpartisan,nongovernmental organization. It was formed in 1987 to advance the quality of teaching and learning by developing professional standards for accomplished teaching, creating a voluntary system to certify teachers who meet those standards and integrating certified teachers into educational reform efforts.

National Council on Teacher Quality is a nonprofit organization devoted to the pursuit of teacher quality by bringing common sense to bear on this urgent national priority. NCTQ aims to provide up-to-the-minute information on what the various policy options are, which may work well, which seem not to work at all, and how we could learn more.

The National Institute for Excellence in Teaching (NIET) was established with the mission of ensuring a highly skilled, strongly motivated and competitively compensated teacher for every classroom in America. NIET seeks to accomplish this mission through engaging in a broad range of effective initiatives focused on implementing comprehensive teacher quality reforms across the country.

Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC) is a nonprofit organization of institutions of higher education and others devoted to the improvement of academic degree programs for professional educators. The Council's primary work is the accreditation of these professional programs through a system that examines and verifies competent, caring, and qualified professional educators. After institutions have met certain eligibility standards, the Council requires that they prepare a research monograph, the Inquiry Brief, in which they demonstrate and document that their programs satisfy three principles of quality:

Evidence of student learning and understanding of the teaching field

Evidence that the assessment of student learning is valid

Evidence of the program’s own continuous improvement and quality control.

A special project of the National Right to Work Legal Defense and Education Foundation, Inc., Concerned Educators Against Forced Unionism (CEAFU) was established in 1975 to challenge compulsory unionism for teachers. CEAFU provides Information to teachers about their rights regarding union participation.